Thursday, June 19, 2014
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
D-Day 6 June 1944: The General Colonel Sanders Remembers
The cliffs of Normandy, France June 6, 2014
- He stood bareheaded and alone. Proud and erect, firm of jaw, resolute of will.
World leaders who assembled for the D-Day anniversary clamoured to pump the hand of the Expatdom's top fighting-man, General Colonel Harlan B. Sanders.
Modern-day soldiers also knelt at his feet, eager to hear the veteran war-horse's reminisces of that day, 70 year's ago, when the General stormed ashore here.
- "It was me", the General began, "the first man ashore here at Normandy. And, I was the last!".
"Went in at, ohh, must've been about 0600 hours with the 101st Airborne. M' boys were pretty sick in that landing-craft, but not me, not after countless hours trainingback home in Lake Taihu.
So we got in there at Utah ok. Lit-up a Lucky Strike. Then I got a call to go over and help at Omaha.
"Pretty soon after, those Brits at Sword wanted me there too, so I waded on-in again. All t'gether, I stormed ashore, withdrew, then returned ashore, around 68 times on D-Day. Our WCE Expats, our boys, fought like tigers. We wuz unstoppable. But I just had to get that franchise up and running. We were serving nuggets in St Mere Eglise by 1800 hours".
"Mind you, those Krauts didn't exactly make it a picnic fer us!", chortled the General Colonel, with his characteristic earthy growl. "I personally took out 17 pill-boxes in the first seven minutes. Came up against a hard-nosed bunch o' Krauts in a trench, so I tossed 'em some pineapples, and fries, and out they came, beggin' for my mercy".
"I think it would've been just after lunch when I captured those 22 German generals. Absolute cinch. Jus' barked th' ole 'hande hoch' at em, took their orders, and that was it".
"About a week later Ike pinned a clutch of medals on me. Monty pinned a few more on me a few days later. All in all, it was a mighty-fine battle for me and th' Wuxer Expat Regiments", smiled the General Colonel. One gets the impression that this hard-bitten warrior has got another ten world wars left in him, yet to fight.
"I keep m' pecker up", nodded the General Colonel.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Wuxi Expat Philosopher to Marry Reason
Wudwig
Littgenstein, Wuxi Expat Philosopher, has married Reason in a
ceremony held in the Benedict Chapel at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
of Gambay's Pub #2 in the Nanchang Jie Bar Street of Wuxi, China.
Blessed
Saint Archduke Sir Harry Moore Emeritus was the best man for the
ceremony which was conducted by Elite Expat and Priest Andis Kaulins.
Also attending were His Majesty King of the Wuxi China Expatdom
Gorzo the Mighty and his consort Queen Ayira: The Chosen One, Wuxi
Expat Blogger Andrew Cowlinch, Wuxi China Expatdom Royal Mounted
Police Force Chief Inspector Harry Callahan, Wuxi China Expatdom
Royal Air Force Supreme Marshall Gregory Peck, Wuxi China Expatdom
Royal Navy Admiral and Life Guard Lloyd Bridges, Wuxi China Expatdom
Royal Land Force Commander General Chuck Chugwater, Wuxi China
Expatdom Prime Minister Mango, Wuxi China Expatdom Parliamentary
Opposition Leader General Augusto Pinochle, Wuxi China Expatdom King
in waiting Sir Alec Guinness, some Wuxi English teachers, the
President of the Wuxi Expat Rifle Association Mister K, and all the
Wuxi Expat Pub owners.
A
reception was held afterward with catering services provided by Wally
Droop. Blessed Saint Archduke Sir Harry Moore Emeritus and Wuxi
China Expatdom Royal Mounted Police Force Chief Inspector Harry
Callahan accompanied by Nielson Riddle and his Orchestra performed
the music.
Littgenstein's
marriage did present some problems for the Wuxi China Expatdom
Wedding License Bureau. Though marriage to inanimate objects is
permitted in the Wuxi China Expatdom, the original WCE law permitting
such marriages stated that Wuxi Expats had to marry physical
manifestation of things and that marriages to abstractions were
strictly prohibited. The WCEWLB initially refused to grant
Littgenstein a license to which the philosopher responded by
picketing the WCEWLB. With a backlog of over one million Wuxi Expats
seeking to marry their firearms, the WCEWLB told Littgenstein that
they would grant his marriage to reason if he could find a person or
thing to stand in for Reason at the ceremony.
Littgenstein
refused the offer until he meet Wuxi Expat English Teacher
Association President and Ex-Stripper Sugar Candy at Dangle's
Participle Pub, a popular hangout and drinking hole for Wuxi English
Teachers. “When I first lay my eyes on her, I exclaimed Eureka!!
Sugar was the physical manifestation of Reason that I had mistakenly
assumed never existed!” said Littgenstein. Littgenstein had wanted
to marry his reason because it was something that a modern
philosopher worth his salt in the Wuxi China Expatdom should do.
Sugar
Candy agreed to be a stand-in for Reason at the ceremony and to
accompany Littgenstein on the honeymoon. “Ha ha, he he. I am
looking forward to him showing me what he means when he says that the
human body is the best picture of the human soul. He he ho. I also
want him to show me these things of which we cannot speak!”
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